Bird Ballet
by Paul

Comment:
This seems a bit nontraditional for you; I certainly didn't expect this was from you, which is neither good nor bad. I like how the reflection is facing the viewer, yet blurred, while the clear and sharp bird is looking away.

ETA: I see now that it was another bird... I had interpreted it as a reflection, but either way, the repetition works very well.

Message edited by author 2011-02-08 05:35:57.

flying high
by UrfaK

Comment:
I just liked this as soon as I saw it. The curved line of birds leading into the (seeming) spiral is simply great. Nice composition, a welcome change from traditional bird shots, and an example of seizing the moment. Well done.

Surreality
by MaryO

Comment:
This was one of my favorites from the challenge. It's just... bizarre. I love the ring of light in the ice, the strange prismatic effect that's going on, the small petal/stick on the aged flower, the branch... pretty much everything. Just a very cool shot. The icicle trailing down, mirroring the stalk, is nice.

Spin Master
by LVicari

Comment:
Hands down the best portrait, by a good margin. Hope to see this near the top.
Great posing, love the lighting.

Fort Worth
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
Love the railyard. All those lines... just gives the viewer so much to take in. Like arteries branching out, carrying the lifeblood of the city. Perfect subject matter for bw, and the uniformly grey sky is perfect. It would almost feel amiss if it were detailed with clouds.

Reflections outtake
by sjhuls

Comment:
Curious to hear where this is, it's a wonderful scene. The light falls on the mountains just perfectly, in a fashion that shows their ridges in relief very well. Flat lighting on mountains sucks, but capturing them like this is grand. Very nice shot. It could just be by happenstance or that the scene was naturally that way, but the variance in the cloud texture feels a bit awkward and almost as though it's a result of PP. I'm referring to the smoothness of the clouds through all the scene but the top right, where they have much finer detail. Again, could just be how things looked, but it's the first thing I thought.

Royal Naval College Greenwich
by salmiakki

Comment:
Very nice pano you've got here. The detail is awesome, and the aspect works very well here. You've got a couple oddities in your sky, and I only point them out because I myself am guilty of forgetting about the same thing time and time again. It's like I get the whole thing done and realize I left some weird junk in the sky. I don't think I've ever done a pano and gotten everything the first time around.

Sweetwater wind farm #2
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
The flowers are pretty cool on this, and I really like their presence. Things seem really cropped though, which makes me wonder since you could zoom up to 135 if it just wasn't possible to get closer. Getting a bit elevated would've been cool for this, perhaps by standing on your car, or alternately, getting up into the flowers themselves and use the depth of field to accentuate the distance. But I think elevating, then using a portrait format, slightly aimed down and combined with a hyperfocal distance would be splendid for this one.

Sweetwater wind farm #1
by Yo_Spiff

Comment:
The train really makes this shot, IMO. It creates a dramatic sense of scale, which is only compounded by the string of generators in the background. The centered composition works well, since it is complimented by the train and other generators, but I'm left wanting to see the intersection of the furrows with the train. Perhaps you didn't include it because the train ends there, but leaving it could have drawn the viewer through the scene a bit more strongly. It's implied as is, though, so it still functions, but it seems a bit incidental like this. I'm a big sucker for wind generators; love 'em.

Running Wild
by Germaine

Comment:
Ooo I like the pan on this. Nice lighting you've captured here. I'd personally consider maybe chopping a bit more off the bottom.